AT&T took a big step forward in its plan to deploy Long Term Evolution technology by selecting Ericsson and Alcatel-Lucent as its LTE equipment vendors.
Alcatel-Lucent is entering the mobile advertising market with Optism, a hosted platform for mobile operators that will let them send personalized ads to subscribers, the telecom vendor said on Tuesday.
Alcatel-Lucent's new Ultimate Wireless Packet Core is designed to let operators get a handle on the current mobile data explosion and offer subscribers more advanced services, the company said on Thursday.
A new product from Alcatel-Lucent aims to let mobile operators serve more customers using their existing radio spectrum, by offering faster mobile broadband services such as HSPA and LTE on frequencies currently reserved for GSM. Using software-defined radio technology, it will simultaneously support multiple mobile network technologies on one frequency, enabling operators to continue to serve customers with older phones.
Alcatel-Lucent this week will reawaken its enterprise switching business with a core switch designed to go up against Cisco's Nexus and Juniper's high-end Ethernet box.
Alcatel-Lucent has opened a services delivery center in Bangalore that can manage, operate and maintain multivendor fixed and mobile telecommunications networks, the company said.
IT and communications bellwethers Sprint, Alcatel-Lucent, Cisco and Symantec this week reported sagging quarterly sales, but analysts, impressed by cost controls and hopeful that a bottom to the tech market has been reached, raised estimates on share price valuations and earnings of some vendors.
Alcatel-Lucent's next-generation mobile networks will use slimmed-down base stations that can be placed almost anywhere in order to improve coverage and mobile broadband performance, and cut costs for operators, the company said on Monday.
Alcatel-Lucent and Taiwan's main fixed-line telecom provider will build a gigabit passive optical network by the third quarter of 2011 to merge high-speed Internet with other services.
Network World interviews Wim Sweldens, VP of Alcatel-Lucent Ventures, about finding common ground between carriers and the newfangled application and content providers who are bringing P2P and other services onto the market.
Alcatel-Lucent is charting a course to the next generation of carrier routers with new silicon that is focused today on delivering services from the edge of a network but could also power a massive packet engine for the core.
Alcatel-Lucent this week confirmed it is "exploring strategic options" for its Enterprise business, a non-core asset that's been reported to be shopped around for a possible sale.
Alcatel-Lucent plans to ship a router module next year that supports the emerging 100Gb per second Ethernet standard at the edge of carrier networks, where services are delivered to subscribers.
Alcatel-Lucent today announced a deal with a wireless carrier in Germany that uses Acatel-Lucent's new Advertising Selection Server to offer mobile users advertising in return for free minutes or text messages.
Alcatel-Lucent this week will unveil a new Ethernet switch for enterprise campus networks that is designed to extend voice, data and video convergence to the wiring closet and access tier.
Avaya has unveiled low-end Ethernet switches for small and midsize enterprises and remote branches that include features usually found in higher-end enterprise-class switches.
Jury orders Microsoft to pay Alcatel-Lucent $1.5 billion
Microsoft must pay $1.5 billion in damages to Alcatel-Lucent for infringing on patents for MP3 encoding and decoding technology, a U.S. jury said Thursday.
ConSentry NAC gear will be sold with an Alcatel-Lucent label on it as a way for the networking company to provide its business customers with a high-performance intrusion detection and prevention platform.
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